now playing: outkast - ms. jackson

considering how early i went to bed last night, i would consider this sleeping unbelievably late. so, i need to buy a new computer and i have many options obviously. this computer that i'm typing on right now was built by mark and i. the problem is, it has almost always had some problem with it. so, i'm definitely considering buying a packaged computer from dell or compaq. i'm just not sure anymore, because having a prebuilt computer means that it comes with so much garbage on it. i guess worse things could happen. but, i'm thinking that if i bought a prebuilt computer, i could transfer my 40 gigs of mp3's over pretty easily. does anyone want to weigh in on this? what should i do? i want to decide pretty soon, because one of my hard drives is failing. i hear clicking noises that a power user should never hear. maybe i'll just buy a new hard drive instead. how big? as many gigs as my pocketbook can handle.

update: i bought a new computer; problem solved.